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Stuart White

(Ph.D (Princeton))

Associate Professor of Politics and Tutorial Fellow in Politics, Jesus College

Affiliation:

Political Theory

Email:

stuart.white@jesus.ox.ac.uk

Phone:

(01865) 279747

College:

Jesus College

Research Interests

Normative political theory, public policy and the history of political thought. I am particularly interested in egalitarianism and its application in policy, and in traditions of political and policy thinking that are simultaneously anti-capitalist and opposed to authoritarian forms of socialism.

How to Defend Inheritance Tax. London: Fabian Society. With Rajiv Prabhakar and Karen Rowlingson. 2008. Winner of the 2008 Jenny Jeger Prize for the best publication of the Fabian Society over the preceding year.

D. Articles

‘Parliaments, Constitutional Conventions, and Popular Sovereignty’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations. DOI: 10.1177/1369148117700657 Online March 30. 2017.

‘The Left after Social Democracy: Towards State-Society Partnerships’, in Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain: Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century, Peter Ackers and Alastair J. Reid, eds. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave, 303-327. 2016.

The Republican Critique of Capitalism, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 14 (5), 561-579. 2011. Reprinted in Democratic Citizenship and Its Futures, Chris Armstrong and Andrew Mason, eds. London: Routledge, 9-27. 2012.

New Labour and the Politics of Ownership, in Reassessing New Labour: Market, State and Society under Blair and Brown, Patrick Diamond and Michael Kenny, eds. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 140-151. 2011.

Revolutionary Liberalism? The Philosophy and Politics of Ownership in the Post-War Liberal Party, British Politics 4 (2), pp.164-187. 2009.

On the limits and possibilities of social democracy: the economics of Andrew Glyn, Renewal 16 (3/4), pp.134-147. 2008. A revised version of this paper, Must efficiency and equality conflict? The economics of Andrew Glyn, is published in Oxford Review of Economic Policy 25 (1), pp.155-163. 2009.

Political Theory, Social Science and Real Politics, in David Leopold and Marc Stears, eds., Political Theory: Methods and Approaches (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008), pp.49-69. With Adam Swift.

What (if Anything) is Wrong with Inheritance Tax?, The Political Quarterly 79 (2), 162-171. 2008.

Universal Capital Grants: The Issue of Responsible Use, in The Citizens Stake: Exploring the Future of Universal Asset Policies, Will Paxton and Stuart White with Dominic Maxwell, eds., Bristol: Policy Press. 2006. With Will Paxton.

Inheritance Tax: What do the People Think? Evidence from Deliberative Workshops, in The Citizens Stake: Exploring the Future of Universal Asset Policies, Will Paxton and Stuart White with Dominic Maxwell, eds., Bristol: Policy Press. 2006. With Miranda Lewis.

A Social Democratic Approach to Welfare Conditionality: Finding a Framework for Evaluation, in Sanctions and Sweeteners: Rights and Responsibilities in the Benefits System, Kate Stanley and Liane Asta Lohde (with Stuart White), London: Institute for Public Policy Research. 2004.

Freedom, Reciprocity, and the Citizens Stake, in The Ethics of Stakeholding, Keith Dowding, Jurgen De Wispelaere and Stuart White, eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 2003.

Stakeholding - Towards a New Social Paradigm, in The Ethics of Stakeholding, Keith Dowding, Jurgen De Wispelaere and Stuart White, eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 2003. With Keith Dowding and Jurgen De Wispelaere.

Must Liberty and Equality Conflict? Renewal 10 (1): 27-38. 2002. A revised version of this article is also published in Ethical Socialism for a Prosperous Country, A.H. Halsey, ed. London: Methuen. 2007.

New Liberalism Revisited, in Progressive Politics in the Global Age, Henry Tam, ed. Oxford: Polity Press, 36-53. With Marc Stears. 2001.A revised version of this article is also published in Imprints: a journal of analytical socialism 5 (3), 221-236. 2002.

The Ambiguities of the Third Way; Conclusion: The Uncertain Future of Progressive Politics, in New Labour: The Progressive Future?, Stuart White, ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave. Conclusion with Susan Giaimo. 2001.

That was the New Labour that wasnt, Fabian Review 125 (1), pp.14-17. 2013. With Martin ONeill. A revised and extended version of this essay is published as The New Labour That Wasnt: The lessons of what might have been, Democracy in Britain: Essays in Honour of James Cornford, Guy Lodge and Glenn Gottfried, eds. London: Institute for Public Policy Research, 31-40. 2014.

Book Review: What Happened to the Convention on Modern Liberty?, review of The Convention on Modern Liberty: the British debate on fundamental rights and freedoms, Rosemary Bechler ed. London: Imprint Academic, 2010. http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/stuart-white/book-review-what-happened-to-convention-on-modern-liberty. 2010.

An end to Labourism, in Peter Harrington and Beatrice Karol Burks, eds., What Next for Labour? Ideas for the Progressive Left (London, Demos), pp.74-78. 2009. This paper is also published in Oxford Left Review 1, February 2010.

After Neo-Liberalism: Republican Democracy in New Times, Public Policy Research 16 (1), pp.14-20. 2009.

The Republican Case for Basic Income: A Plea for Difficulty. Basic Income Studies 2 (2). 2007.

Too Few Tensions, but Not Enough Utopia? Comments on Equality: From Theory to Practice, Res Publica 13, pp.191-201. 2007.

Why do the Liberal Democrats Oppose the Child Trust Fund? Public Policy Research 14 (1). 2007.

A Progressive Politics of Responsibility: What Would it Look Like? Public Policy Research 12 (1). 2005.

Autonomy for All? On the Case for an Inclusive Assets Policy. New Economy 10 (4). 2003.

The Preference for Personal Enhancement - Perfectionism or Fairness? A Response to Jonathan Wolff. Comment on Jonathan Wolff, The Message of Redistribution, on the website of the Catalyst Forum: . 2003.

Dont Legislate for Religious Belief, The Observer, October 7, Comment Extra published on web-site. 2001.

Ethics and Equality. The Boston Review 25 (6): 38-44. 2000.

Three Questions, The Boston Review 23 (6): 22-23. Critical response to Bowles and Gintis, Is Equality Passe?, in same edition of this political and literary review. 1998.

Justice, Community, and the Inequality of Talents, RUSEL Working Paper 27, University of Exeter. 1997.

Rethinking the Strategy of Equality: An Assessment of the Report of the Commission on Social Justice. The Political Quarterly 66 (3): 205-210. 1995.

Pensioners and the Public Purse. London: Institute for Fiscal Studies. With Vanessa Fry and Stephen Smith. 1990.